It's great that they're finally giving the underground some attention but it also makes me feel sort of sad - because no matter how much the game changed during the years you could always go caving and have that exact same nostalgic experience.
How are they incorporating the lower limits into world's that already exist? There are areas in my world where I've explored down to bedrock, well there just be a whole new area below there?
ugh, would love to be able to have this in my existing world with my partner. even if we can make it merge we've explored around us several thousand blocks so we'd have to go far out to get new caves
The fact that they say that there is "currently no upgrade path" tells me they plan to add one. Probably, old chunks will stay the same and new chunks will have a vertical bedrock wall at the first block of the border chunk. That way, players can't get to the 64 blocks of void under their old chunks.
you can, but it is very slow and painful because there isn't a lot of space to build bedrock breakers because unlike the nether roof its not flat. usually you would need to break 5 or 6 blocks of bedrock just to reach the void
new chunks will have new generation. Minecraft updates never change existing generated chunks, but if you explore places in your world you've never been then it'll load the new caves.
It's great that they're finally giving the underground some attention but it also makes me feel sort of sad - because no matter how much the game changed during the years you could always go caving and have that exact same nostalgic experience.
I think Mojang said the old style caves will still exist. Hopefully the giant caves are rarer than more classic style caves
How are they incorporating the lower limits into world's that already exist? There are areas in my world where I've explored down to bedrock, well there just be a whole new area below there?
right now older worlds are incompatible with this snapshot so we will have to wait and see
ugh, would love to be able to have this in my existing world with my partner. even if we can make it merge we've explored around us several thousand blocks so we'd have to go far out to get new caves
The fact that they say that there is "currently no upgrade path" tells me they plan to add one. Probably, old chunks will stay the same and new chunks will have a vertical bedrock wall at the first block of the border chunk. That way, players can't get to the 64 blocks of void under their old chunks.
until we break the bedrock, that is
time to make a base in the void
Can you break bottom bedrock? I know you can get at the area above bedrock in the Nether on Java, but what about on the bottom?
you can, but it is very slow and painful because there isn't a lot of space to build bedrock breakers because unlike the nether roof its not flat. usually you would need to break 5 or 6 blocks of bedrock just to reach the void
new chunks will have new generation. Minecraft updates never change existing generated chunks, but if you explore places in your world you've never been then it'll load the new caves.